Word: coronas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before the last bodies were found, police arrested Juan Corona, 37, a Mexican farm-labor contractor who was a churchgoer, homeowner, and father of four girls. "We are sure that he committed the murders," said Sheriff Roy Whiteaker. That was 17 months ago. Last week, one month after the prosecution opened its case, no one was quite so sure of anything...
...court-ordered ban on talking to the press. That won him the first of eight contempt citations calling for up to 40 days in jail and $3,700 in fines. "I had to," says Hawk, "to take the pressure off Juan." And his tactics did help to turn Corona from an ogre into something of a hero. When the trial opened, Mexican-American pickets marched with signs saying JUSTICE FOR JUAN CORONA...
Grave Errors. Police had originally been led to Corona when receipts made out to him were found in one grave. Then they found blood on some of Corona's possessions. But the case against him soon proved to be less than ironclad. The prosecution admitted that some bodies had been improperly labeled, and no one could tell which had been found where. Blood samples taken from knives belonging to Corona were too fragmentary to be connected with the victims. Tire tracks at one gravesite were said by police to have come from one of Corona's trucks, until...
...himself like a sophisticated Groucho Marx. Rocco Piccolomini as the General is a fine old fashioned zany with a phony moustache and a phony accent to match, both of which contribute immeasurably to his persona, as he and the posturing poetaster Bouzin (Michael Baird) flutter like moths around the corona of the coquette, Lucette (Elsie Adams...
Perhaps the most intriguing experiment was that of Harvard's Dr. James Baker, designer of optical systems. He had constructed a special camera and lens apparatus to black out the corona and search through the resulting darkness for objects within the orbit of Mercury. Astronomers have long talked about a hidden planet near the sun, tentatively named Vulcan, and Baker hoped to find this, or hitherto unseen comets. Only weeks of analysis will show whether he succeeded...